CONCLUSION
You have from me, Gentlemen of the University, this little present, put together by the labour of such leisure as I could snatch on the road. My purpose was to clear myself in your judgment of the charge of arrogance, and to show just cause for my confidence, and meanwhile, until such time as along with me you are invited by the adversaries to the disputations in the Schools, to give you a sort of foretaste of what is to come there. If you think it a just, safe, and virtuous choice for Luther or Calvin to be taken for the Canon of Scripture, the Mind of the Holy Ghost, the Standard of the Church, the Pedagogue of Councils and Fathers, in short, the God of all witnesses and ages, I have nothing to hope of your reading or hearing me. But if you are such as I have pictured you in my mind, philosophers, keen-sighted, lovers of the truth, of simplicity, of modesty, enemies of temerity, of trifles and sophisms, you will easily see daylight in the open air, seeing that you already see the peep of day through a narrow chink. I will say freely what my love of you, and your danger, and the importance of the matter requires. The devil is not unaware that you will see this light of day, if ever you raise your eyes to it. For what a piece of stupidity it would be to prefer Hanmers and Charks to Christian antiquity! But there are certain Lutheran enticements whereby the devil extends his kingdom, delicate snares whereby that hooker of men has caught with his baits already many of your rank and station. What are they! Gold, glory, pleasures, lusts. Despise them. What are they but bowels of earth, high-sounding air, a banquet of worms, fair dunghills. Scorn them. Christ is rich, who will maintain you: He is a King, who will provide you: He is a sumptuous entertainer, who will feast you; He is beautiful, who will give in abundance all that can make you happy. Enrol yourselves in His service, that with Him you may gain triumphs, and show yourselves men truly most learned, truly most illustrious. Farewell. At Cosmopolis, City of all the world, 1581.
THE END.
[Footnote 1: Cf. Newman, Lectures on Anglican Difficulties, Lect. xii.: “I say, then, the writings of the Fathers, so far from prejudicing at least one man (J.H.N.) against the modern Church, have been singly and solely the one intellectual cause of his having renounced the religion in which he was born and submitted himself to her.”]
[Footnote 2: Richard Cheyne, Anglican bishop of Gloucester, to whom there is extant a letter from Campion, dated 1 November, 1571.]
[Footnote 3: The Latin is Philippos.]
[Footnote 4: Seems to refer to the first Protestant bishops, mighty hunters (Genesis x. 9) after place, and, to secure it, all too ready to alienate the manors and possessions of their see.]
[Footnote 5: I have here paraphrased, as any literal translation would have been hopelessly obscure to most modern readers. Campion could but hint darkly his comparison of the Elizabethan persecution to the Decian. The Latin runs: Etenim, ut nostrorum illa fuit Epistasis turbulenta, sic nostrorum haec evasit divina Catastrophe. Epistasis is “the part of the play where the plot thickens” (Liddell and Scott). Catastrophe is “the turn of the plot” (Id.).]
[Footnote 6: Faeces et folles et alumenta gehennae.]
[Footnote 7: Mali corvi.]
Ten Reasons – St Edmund Campion —HOME
CONCLVSIO
Habetis a me, florentes Academici, hoc munusculum, contextum operis in itinere subcisivis. Animus fuit et purgare me vobis de arrogantia, et satisfacere de fiducia, et interim dum ab adversariis una mecum in scholas invitemini, quaedam apponere degustanda. Si aequam, si tutum, si honestum ducitis, haberi Lutherum, aut Calvinum, canonem Scripturae, mentem sancti Spiritus, normam Ecclesiae, Conciliorum Patrumque paedagogum, omnium denique testium et saeculorum Deum, nihil est quod sperem, vobis lectoribus vel auditoribus. Sin estis ii, quos apud animum formavi meum, philosophi occulati, amatores veri, simplicitatis, modestiae; hostes temeritatis, nugarum, sophismatum; facile diem in aprico videbitis, qui dieculam angusta rima dispicitis. Dicam libere, quod meus in vos amor, et vestrum periculum et rei magnitudo postulat. Non hoc nescit diabolus, vos istam lucem, si quando coeperitis oculos attolere, conspecturos. Cuius enim stuporis fuerit, antiquitati christianae Hammeros et Charcos anteponere? Sed sunt quaedam illecebrae lutheranae, quibus suum ille regnum amplificat, quibus ille tendiculis hamatus multos iani vestri ordinis inescavit. Quaenam? Aurum, gloria, deliciae, veneres. Contemnite. Quid enim aliud ista sunt, nisi terrarum ilia, canorus aer, propina vermium, bella sterquilinia? Spernite. Christus dives est, qui vos alet; Rex est, qui ornabit; lautus est, qui satiabit, speciosus est, qui felicitatum omnium cumulos largietur. Huic vos adscribite militanti, ut cum eo triumphos, vere doctissimi vereque clarissimi, reportetis. Valete. Cosmopoli 1581.
[Footnote 1: A Beato Edmundo anglice scripta, ab alio latine reddita.]
[Footnote 2: Est hic locus supplicii anglice Tyburn.]
[Footnote 3: Aug. l. 28 contra Faust. c. 2 et de utilit. cred. c. 3.]
[Footnote 4: Iren. l. 1, c. 26.]
[Footnote 5: Lut. in novo test. german.; Praef. in ep. Iac.; vide etiam l. de capt. Babyl. cap. de extr. unct. et cent, Magd. 2 p. 58.]
[Foonote 6: Ii sunt Baruch, Tobias, Iudith, Sapientia,
Ecclesiast., duo Machab.]
[Footnote 7: Ep. ad Hebr., Ep. Iudae, Ep. 2 Petri, Epist. 2 et 3 Ioan.]
[Footnote 8: De doctr. christ. l. 2 c. 3.]
[Footnote 9: Conc. Trid. sess. 4; vid. Melch. Can. l. 2 de loc, theol.]
[Footnote 10: De praedest, sanct. c. 14.]
[Footnote 11: Instit. I. lib. I, c. 7, num. 4 et 5.]
[Footnote 12: Xistus Sen. l. 8, haer. 10.]
[Footnote 13: Praef. in Cant. Vide Bezam in sua praef. ante comm.
Calv. in Iosue.]
[Footnote 4: Epist. ad Paulinum.]
[Footnote 15: Lut. praef. in Apoc.—Kemn. in exam. Conc.
Trid. sess. 4.]
[Footnote 16: Praef. in nov. Test.]
[Footnote 17: Lut. serm. de Pharis. et Publ.]
[Footnote 18: Matth. xxvi. 26; Marc. xiv. 22; Luc. xxii. 19.]
[Footnote 19: In epist. ad Argent.]
[Footnote 20: Matth. viii. 29; Marc. i. 24.]
[Footnote 21: Luc. xxii. 19; Matth. xxvi. 28; Marc. xiv. 24.]
[Footnote 22: Ioan. vi.; Matth. xvi.; Marc. xiv.; Luc. xxii.;. 1
Cor. x. et xi.]
[Footnote 23: Calv. Instit. l. iv., c. 1 n. 2 et 3.]
[Footnote 24: Act. xv. 28.]
[Footnote 25: Greg. I. 1, ep. 24.]
[Footnote 26: Ang. I Elizab.]
[Footnote 27: Nic. can. vi.; Chalc. act. iv.; Const. c. 5.]
[Footnote 28: Ephes. conc. in epist. ad Nestor; Nic. c. xiv.]
[Footnote 29: Chalc. act. xi.]
[Footnote 30: Nic. conc. apud Soc. I. i. c. 8.]
[Footnote 31: Vide Chalc. can. iv., vii., xvi., xxiv.]
[Footnote 32: Matth. xviii. 20; Ioan. xiv. 26.]
[Footnote 33: Lib. de capt. Bab.]
[Footnote 34: Exam. Conc. Trid]
[Footnote 35: Vide Conc. Trid. sess. 11, 15 et 18.]
[Footnote 36: Act. xiii. 1; 1 Cor. xii. 28; Ephes. iv. 11; 1 Cor. xiv., 1 et seq.]
[Footnote 37: Matth. xiii. 52.]
[Footnote 38: S. Dion. Areop. de quo vide. 6 Syn. act. 4, Adon.,
Tren. in martyr. Turon., Syng., Suid., Metap.]
[Footnote 39: Comm. in 1, 13, 17 Deut. Item in capt. Babyl.]
[Footnote 40: Dial. 5 et 11.]
[Footnote 41: Cent. 2, c. 10.]
[Footnote 42: Inst. l. I, c. 13, n. 29.]
[Footnote 43: Cent. 2, c. 5.]
[Footnote 44: Cent. 1, l. 2, c. 10 et seq.]
[Footnote 45: Tert. l. de praescr. contr. haer.]
[Footnote 46: Orat. de cos. secul.]
[Footnote 47: Causs. dial. 8 et 11.]
[Footnote 48: Cent. 3, c. 4.]
[Footnote 49: Ibid.]
[Footnote 50: Ezech. xiii. 18.]
[Footnote 51: Praef. in Cent. 5.]
[Footnote 52: Dial. 6, 7, 8.]
[Footnote 53: Beza in act. c. 23, v. 3]
[Footnote 54: Test. Stanch. l. de Trinit.]
[Footnote 55: Contr. Henr. reg. Angl.]
[Footnote 56: Lib. 22 de Civit. Dei c. 8 et serm. de divers. 34 et seq.]
[Footnote 57: Contr. ep. Man. quam vocant funda c. 4.]
[Footnote 58: Lib. 1 contr. Parmen.]
[Footnote 59: Aug. l. 1. contr. Parmen.; De unit. c 16; et De doctr. christ. c. 40.]
[Footnote 60: Lib. 2 ad Monim.]
[Footnote 61: Vide S. Hieron. de Script. Eccles.]
[Footnote 62: Vide Epist. Syn. Alexandr. ad Felic. 2.]
[Footnote 63: Epist. ad Ital. Item serm. 91.]
[Footnote 64: Aug. l. 22 de Civ. Dei; Greg. Tur. l. de glor,
Mart. e. 46 et Metaph.]
[Footnote 65: Instit. l. 1, c. 11, n. 5.]
[Footnote 66: Lib. de vita Ivelli.]
[Footnote 67: Ioan. v. 39.]
[Footnote 68: Rom. 1, 8, 9; xv. 29; xvi, 16, 19.]
[Footnote 69: Act. xxviii. 30.]
[Footnote 70: 1 Pet. v. 13.]
[Footnote 71: Hieron. in cap. script. Eccles.; Euseb. 2 hist.c, 14.]
[Footnote 72: Phillip. iv. 3.]
[Footnote 73: Iren. l. 3, c. 3.]
[Footnote 74: Inst. l. 4, c. 2, n. 3 et in epist. ad Sadol.]
[Footnote 75: Calv. Inst. l. 1, c. 18; l. 2, c. 4; l. 3, cc. 23 et 24; Petr. Mart. in 1, Sam. 2.]
[Footnote 76: Melanct. in cap. Rom. 8.]
[Footnote 77: Sic docet Luth. in asser. 36 et in resol. asser. 36 et in libr. de servo arbitrio.]
[Footnote 78: Praef. in Phillip. in ep. ad Rom.]
[Footnote 79: In Apol. Eccl. Anglic.]
[Footnote 80: Vide enchir. prec. an. 1541.]
[Footnote 81: Calv. Inst. l. 1, c. 13, n. 23, 24.]
[Footnote 82: Beza in Hes.]
[Footnote 83: Beza cont. Schmidel. l. de unitat. hypost. duas in Christ. nat.]
[Footnote 84: Calv. in Ioan. x, 30.]
[Footnote 85: Luth. contr. Latom.]
[Footnote 86: Bucer. in Luc. 2; Calv. in har. ev.; Luc. Los.;
Melanct. in ev. Dom. 1 p. Epiph.]
[Footnote 87: Marlorat. in Matth. 26; Calv. in harm. eveng.]
[Footnote 88: Brent. in Luc. part. 2, hom. 65 et in Ioan. hom. 54; Calv. in harm. evang.]
[Footnote 89: Schmidel. Conc. de pass. et coena Dom.; Aepinus comm. in Ps. 16.]
[Footnote 90: Calv. Inst. l. 2, c. 16, n. 10, 11; Brent. in catech, an. 1551.]
[Footnote 91: Ibid. n. 12.]
[Footnote 92: Buc. in Matt. cap. 26.]
[Footnote 93: Illyr. in var. l. de orig. pecc.; Sarcer. de cons. vet Eccles.; Aepinus de imb. et pecc. Sanct.; Kemn. contra cens. col.; Calv. Inst. l. 4, c. 15, n. 10, 11.]
[Footnote 94: Illyr. in var. l. de pecc. orig.—Vide Hesbusium in ep. ad Illyr.]
[Footnote 95: Calv. in antidot. Conc. Trid.—Idem docuerat
Wiclef. apud. Wald. l. 2, de Sacr. c. 154.]
[Footnote 96: Luth. in resp. contra Lovan.]
[Footnote 97: Bucer. in Ioan. 1; Wald. in nat. Christi; Brent. hom 16 in Ioan.; Cent. l. 1, c. 4.]
[Footnote 98: Hesb. de iustif. in resp . asv. 115 obiect.
Illyric. in Apol. confes. Antuerp. c. 6 de iustif.]
[Footnote 99: Calv. Inst. l. 3, c. 2, n. 28 etc.]
[Footnote 100: Calv. Inst. l. 3, c. 2, n. 40.]
[Footnote 101: Lib. de capt. Babyl.]
[Footnote 102: Calv. Inst. l. 4, c. 15, n. 2 et 10; Cent. l. 1, c. 19; Luth. l. de capt. Babyl.]
[Footonote 103: Cent. 2 et 5, c. 4.]
[Footnote 104: Luth. adv. Cochlae, Item epist. ad Melanct. t. 2; et in ep. ad Wald.]
[Footnote 105: Luth. serm. de matrim. et lib. de vit. coniug.; in asser. art. 16; lib. de vot. monast.]
[Footnote 106: Charc. in Cens. suum.]
[Footnote 107: Luth. serm. de Pet.; in asser. art. 32.]
[Footnote 108: Id. l. de serv. arbit.]
[Footnote 109: Id. serm. de Moyse.]
[Footnote 110: Id. l. de capt. Bab. c. de Euch.]
[Footnote 111: Apol. Eccles. Angl.]
[Footnote 112: In 1, p. q. 13, a. 2 ad 2.]
[Footnote 113: Isai. xxxv. 8.]
[Footnote 114: Aug. serm. 37 de Sanct.]
[Footnote 115: Dam. in vit. Pont. Rom.]
[Footnote 116: Hier. cat. Script.]
[Footnote 117: Ign. epist. ad Smyrn.]
[Footnote 118: Euseb. l. 3, c. 30.]
[Footnote 119: Dam. in vita Telesph. to. 1 con. c. stat. d. 5.]
[Footnote 120: Lib. 3, c. 3.]
[Footnote 121: Euseb. 5 hist. 24.]
[Footnote 122: Euseb. 4 hist. 13 et 14.]
[Footnote 123: Euseb. 7 hist. 2 interp. Ruff.]
[Footnote 124: Prud. in hym. de S. Laur.]
[Footnote 125: Vid. Aug. Ser. 1 de S. Laur.; Ambr. l. 1 offi, c. 41; Leo serm. in die S. Laur.]
[Footnote 126: Prud. in hym. de S. Laur.]
[Footnote 127: Metaph.; Ambr. et alii.]
[Footnote 128: Aug. l. 6 confess. c. 7 ad 13.]
[Footnote 129: Hier. in epit. Paul.]
[Footnote 130: Ambr. in orat. fun. de Satyro.]
[Footnote 131: Vide sex tomos Surii de vitis Sanct.]
[Footnote 132: Matth. xv. 18.]
[Footnote 133: Euseb. 4 hist. 5.]
[Footnote 134: Hieron, in epit. Paul. et passim in epist.]
[Footnote 135: Prudent. in Pin. de S, Laur.]
[Footnote 136: Gen. x. 9.]
[Footnote 137: Dam. in Sylv.; Niceph. l. 7, c. 33; Zonaras, Cedremus.]
[Footnote 138: Euseb. l. 2 de vit. Const. c. 7, 8, 9; Sozom. l. 1, c. 8, 9.]
[Footnote 139: Athan. in vita S. Ant.]
[Footnote 140: Theod. l. 1, hist. cap.]
[Footnote 141: Vid. Volate, lovium Aemilium l. 8, Blond. l. 9 de 2.]
[Footnote 142: Clem. l. 1, recog.]
[Footnote 143: Iren. l. 1, c. 2.]
[Footnote 144: Cypr. ep. ad Iubatam et l. 4 ep. 2.]
[Footnote 145: Theod. de fab. haeret.]
[Footnote 146: Aug. haer. 46, 53, 54.]
[Footnote 147: Epiph. haer. 75.]
[Footnote 148: Aug. haer. 54.]
[Footnote 149: Socr. l. 2, C. 28.]
[Footnote 150: Hier. in Iovin. et Vigilant.; Aug. haer. 82.]
[Footnote 151: Vid. Tert. de praescr.; Aug. l. 2 de doctr. christ. c. 8.]
[Footnote 152: 1 Cor. i. 13.]
[Footnote 153: 1 Reg. v. 4.]